Faked Eggs

In China they even make fake eggs and sell them to people to eat, according to a report in the Internet Journal of Toxicology

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[Jay Tea]

Your link looks to be out HP

[mags]

Wow, that seems like a lot of trouble to go through to reproduce something a chicken makes without much more than a little feed.

Only in a country where labor costs are next to nothing could manufacturing eggs by hand be cheaper than keeping chickens.

[Eddylizard]

The chickens fed on coloured feed sounds plausible.

The completely artificial eggs just sound like too much work. Given the number of ingredients and the effort involved would it actually work out cheaper to knock up a batch of these things than to keep chickens?

Originally Posted by Jay Tea

Your link looks to be out HP

All fixed now, Cheers.

Here's another link with the production process

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[Richard W]

Suddenly I'm going to be scared to eat anything when I go to China...! Mind you, I pretty much was anyway...

[Gibbie]

Ok wait, is this being reported anywhere mainstream? The only google hits I'm getting on it are blogs. And that article no longer appears on the website that previously hosted it. The author is part of "Queers Network Research." I'm calling shenanigans.

I've found other articles from the same author including "Vegetable-borne poisoning", "Hair soy sauce: a revolting alternative to the conventional" and "Deadly cooking oil." Nothing at all on "Queers Network Research." The domain leads to an ad page.

It simply doesn't make sense to create chemical based eggs. It's easier to keep a chicken than to go through all that hassle.

Gibbie

Suppose one went through the trouble of making a "fake egg" using the recipe in the OP, and decided to eat it. What would it taste like, and would one really get sick off it?

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[Joostik]

Originally Posted by Gibbie

And that article no longer appears on the website that previously hosted it.

If it actually hosted it previously. If you compare their current index with the version hosted on Archive.org, you'll see all three articles (another one about soy-sauce made from human hair has also been discussed on the old board) by Alexander Tse-Yan Lee are missing.

Either they were removed by the journal after finding out they were duped or they were put in the Web.archive version as a joke.

The articles are definitely more sensationalistic than anything else found there. It's difficult to imagine any serious journal would accept them, so how reliable is Archive.org?